In that strange way a bad week is followed by a good one, I managed to work steadily and evenly on my project through the week. I decided on power-point (which became Slideshare due to the size to which it grew) because I was not happy with my last voice-over attempt and because this time I wanted to operate in a medium where I was relatively experienced and comfortable. I had tried over the weekend to work with prezi, which was my first choice, but the learning curve was to steep and my feel for moving screens and elements around visually was not instinctive enough.
It is enormously important to me to network the various projects I have where possible which is why I wanted to link my newly re-awakened interest in visual stills, with my work with the 13th class on Ireland and with the ethnography project.
ethnographic juggler
Ireland being the theme, I wanted a powerful but not overpowering green background and I wanted the image of the stone chairs to illustrate the Arts polymath that Yeats was. Those found, I made the decision to take the route: poetic extract, photo then commentary in that order. I was aware as I did so that the commentary part would be too thin for my satisfaction, due to time and project size constraints. I decided the main thing I could hope for was to get the project adequate to the procedural needs rather than a completed study. In short, I wanted to come away at the end and know that I understand how the basics of online ethnography function, which parameters need to be taken into account, how my text reporting can be framed and which media seem to me to be appropriate for such a project. Concerning the suitable media I expect to learn a lot from the contributions of my peers. Looking at them is my next pleasurable task and then I can complete the summary by commenting on them.
closely observing my peers
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